8/18/06 - Chabad of the Five Towns

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	A Word From the Rabbi

How does your family celebrate a birthday or anniversary? Do you do something really meaningful on a loved one's yartzeit?

Here at Chabad, we can help you make any occasion really special! Consider sponsoring a Kiddush at Chabad for any reason - birthday, yartzeit, anniversary, graduation, farewell, milestone... or just because!

Select your date and grade Kiddush and we'll take care of the rest - the choices are Regular, Super or Premium. There is full availability for the coming months - call Dr. Muller today to reserve your date and discuss Kiddush opportunities at Chabad: 516-569-0169 or email /admin/publishing/[email protected].

Best wishes for a Shabbat Shalom & Shana Tova,
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik

	Current Happenings @ Chabad

KIDDUSH
The Kiddush at the Chabad Center this Shabbos is sponsored by Noam & Devorah Rejman, celebrating the sheva brochot of their children, Yoni & Inbal who got married this past week! If you would like to sponsor the Kiddush at Chabad at a future date in honor or in memory of a family member or friend, please contact Dr. Muller at 516-569-0169.

Birthday Shabbat, August 19
Next Shabbat is Birthday Shabbat! Is your child celebrating his / her Jewish birthday in the month of Elul? We'll throw the party in a most meaningful way, celebrating the birthdays of all children born during this month. Each child will be given the opportunity to announce his/her resolution of a good deed for the upcoming year. All children are welcome to participate!

Club Sign Up Party: Monday, September 4, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Catch the Action! Register your child in our Youth Clubs! Space is Limited

Bagel Babies – Boys & Girls 12 – 36 Months
Chabad Hebrew School – Boys & Girls Grades K - 9
Chabad Youth Zone – Boys & Girls Ages 3 - 8
Cheder Menachem Mendel – Boys & Girls Grades 1-7
Chai Five Mitzvah Club – Girls Grades 3-5
Rabbi & The Mitzvah Men – Boys Grades 4-6
Bat Mitzvah Club – Girls Grades 6
BATT – Boys Accepting Torah Treasures – Boys Grades 7 & 8
Teen Talk – Girls Grades 7&8
Friendship Circle – Boys & Girls Grades 9 – 12
* Gifts for all members

For those unable to attend, visit our Virtual Clubhouse: www.Chabad5Towns.com/clubs or call 516-295-2478 x19 to register.

Save the Date: Tuesday, September 5
Beautiful Beach BBQ with the Chabad Family at the New Plaza Beach Club, Atlantic Beach, NY. *Great Food! * Great Fun! * Great Entertainment for all!

B"H

Candle Lighting Times for
Cedarhurst, NY
[Based on Zip Code 11516]

Shabbat Begins: Aug. 18 2006	7:32 PM
Shabbat Ends: Aug. 19 2006	8:32 PM

Parshah Re'eh

Shul Family News

Happy Birthday To:
Mr. Motty Glick, Morad Shema, Kayla Evans, Stephanie Friedman, Chana Stein, Mr. David Freedman, Dr. David Balch, Leah Eliana Popack, Ariella Alenick, Rochelle Kiselman, Mr. Joe Radomsky

Mazal Tov To:
Noam & Devorah Rejman on the marriage of their children, Yoni & Inbal!

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HEBREW SCHOOL REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Call: 516-295-2478 x19 or visit our website for more info!

	This Week on www.ChabadFiveTowns.com

Story

	The View from Below
"Rebbe, I don't understand," the disciple asked. "When you were here your prayers protected us. But now that you are in heaven—and your spiritual power is even greater—all these terrible things are happening..."

Voices

	How Faith Saved the Atheist
A medical resident—we called her "Dr. Death"--chased us down the hallway. "Your husband wants to die," she told my mother, again.

Kids

	Charity Times Eight
Itche, Jono, and all of their friends act out different ways of giving charity.

Essay

	Tending the Garden
I'm often asked: Where are the feminine voices in Jewish history, the feminine role models? Why are they not leading the way?

	The Jewish Calendar

Hasmonean Holiday (circa 100 BCE)

Shabbat

Av 25 | Aug 19

Bless New Month

Sunday

Av 26 | Aug 20

Tzemach Tzeddek Departs Petersburg

Rosh Chodesh
2nd Tablets Hewn (1313 BCE)

Rosh Chodesh Observances

Practice shofar blowing; L'David Hashem Ori

Friday

Elul 1 | Aug 25

Rosh Chodesh
Moses ascends Sinai for 3rd 40 days (1313 BCE)

Rosh Chodesh Observances

Elul observances

Good Year greetings

Shabbat

Elul 2 | Aug 26

Shulchan Aruch published (1555)

	Daily Thought

Inspired Animal

Who are your thoughts reaching? It is not the Divine soul within that needs to be inspired. It is the animal within.

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

	The Parshah In a Nutshell

Parshat Re'eh

"See," says Moses to the people of Israel, "I place before you today a blessing and a curse" -- the blessing that will come when they fulfill G‑d's commandments, and the curse if they abandon them. These should be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and Mount Eibal when the people cross over into the Holy Land.

A Temple should be established in "the place that G‑d will choose to make dwell His name there" where the people should bring their sacrifices to Him; it is forbidden to make offerings to G‑d in any other place. It is permitted to slaughter animals elsewhere not as a sacrifice but to eat their meat; the blood, however (which in the Temple is poured upon the Altar) may not be eaten.

A false prophet, or one who entices others to worship idols, should be put to death; an idolatrous city must be destroyed. The identifying signs for kosher animals and fishes, and the list of non-kosher birds (first given in Leviticus 11) are repeated.

A tenth of all produce is to be eaten in Jerusalem, or else exchanged for money with which food is purchased and eaten there. On certain years this tithe is given to the poor instead. Firstborn cattle and sheep are to be offered in the Temple and their meat eaten by the Kohen (priest).

The mitzvah of charity obligates a Jew to aid a needy fellow with a gift or loan. On the Sabbatical year (occurring every seventh year) all loans are to be forgiven and all indentured servants are to be set free.

Our Parshah concludes with the laws of the three pilgrimage festivals — Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot — when all should go to "see and be seen" before G‑d in the Holy Temple.

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